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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1912

4,593 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 230

How's That? Personal Chatter and Comment. Senior and Junior Gossip. Notes From All Sources. Grade Competitions. End Sixth Round To-morrow. England's Deserved Victory Is the Australian Attack Dangerous? the Failure of Whitty Success of Hobbs and Hearne Injured Men Should Not Play

The Sun · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

Honors are equal. Australia has, now won one of the series of five tests find England one. Not the most partisan of the followers of the Australian XI. could declare with any…

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The Come Drowning Case

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 6

The poor young follow, Robert Roy Coleman. one of the victims of the sad drowning fatality at Como, was born in Granville, where, until a few years ago…

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Hunter in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 16

When going alongside her berth at Newcastle yesterday, the steamer Hunter bumped into the tug Commodore, which was moored close by. Excepting for some paint scratched off the tug, and a few…

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Drowned in the Surf

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 11

BRISBANE. Saturday.—Mr. Grace, the manager of Stoft and Hoare's Commercial College, Brisbane was drowned in the surf at Southport to-day…

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Drowned in a Waterhole

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 16
Also in The Sun, The Daily Telegraph

Accidental drowning was the Coroner's verdict in the case of Harry Nell Poulton, 14, of May-street, Newtown, who lost his life while bathing in a waterhole at Alexandria…

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Newcastle. a Slight Harbor Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 17

The steamer Hunter, while returning from the Dyke, where she had been coaling, to her berth at King's Wharf, yesterday morning, collided with the tug Commodore. There was an…

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Drowned While Bathing. Brisbane

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 8

Ernest Grace, manager of the Brisbane branch of Messrs. Stott and Hoare was drowned at Southport to-day. He was bathing with others, and suddenly disappeared…

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Boys Drowned. Found in Duck Creek

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 6

Early on Thursday afternoon, a lad named Charles Carsella, aged 10½ years, and residing at Aston-street, Grauville, lost his life whilst bathing in the Duck…

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Mishap to Sir Joseph Carruthers. Collision While Motoring

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 12

GOULBURN, Friday.--Sir Joseph Carruthers and his party had a narrow escape from serious accident on Wednesday evening, near Tarago. Sir Joseph and his three young sons and a…

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War in Tripoli. Several British Subjects Killed and Injured

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 10

During the Italian bombardment of Benghazi, on the Tripolitan coast, terrible have was wrought by the shell fire. So far from being…

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Mill Blown Up. Workmen Killed and Injured at Liverpool

The World's News · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 12

THE latest English papers bring full particulars of the terrible explosion at Bibby's oil mill, Great Howard-street, Liverpool,…

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Hart Hurt. Aeroplane Smash. Machine Wrecked at Mount Druitt. Collision with Railway Signal Post While Flying From Penrith to Parramatta

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 8

The first sensational aeroplane smash to occur in Australia took place at Mount Druitt this morning when the machine of Mr. W. E. Hart, who with Major Rosenthall was flying from…

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Accident on a Barque

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 16

Herbert Bourke, 18, an ordinary seaman, was taken to Sydney Hospital by the Civil Ambulance yesterday morning, and there admitted suffering from severe injuries to the…

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SIR J. Carruthers' Tour. Remarkable Accident. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 15

Sir Joseph Carruthers and party, while motoring from Tarago to Bungendore, on Wednesday, experienced an extraordinary accident. A horse attached to a sulky, which was being…

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Accident to Macartney. Practice Net Falls on Him. Adelaide

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 7

Macartney has his head plastered up today. Yesterday, whiles practising, and when just about to make a stroke, the practice net fell on him and gashed his forehead. There…

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Bi-plane Accident. Mr. Hart Strikes Telegraph Post

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 9

Mr. Hart, the Australian aviator, took Major Rosenthall, one of his pupils, up for a flight this morning, at Penrith, and, had the misfortune to strike had weather, which…

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Lightning Strikes a Syphon Accident at Mosman

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 8

A flash of lightning was responsible for an extraordinary accident at Mosman during yesterday afternoon's storm. Two boys named Wilson and Trelautt living, at Hale-road, Mosman, and both about 10 years of age,…

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Fatalities and Accidents a Desperate Man

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 21

The circumstances connected with the death of William Walsh (38), which occurred at 2 Landers-street, Redfern, on January 1, were inquired into by the Acting-City Coroner…

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